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Showing posts with label Ex-library books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ex-library books. Show all posts
16 December 2024

Elinor Glyn's Christmas Ghost Story (and others)

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The Contrast and Other Stories Elinor Glyn London: Duckworth, 1913 312 pages As is typical of short story collections, this book is overshad...
03 January 2022

Spoiled by a Publisher

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Philistia Grant Allen London: Chatto & Windus, 1901 317 pages Roughly one-third of the way though  Philistia , Herbert Le Breton prepare...
14 December 2021

A Good Old Soldier

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Old Soldier Frederick Niven London: Collins, 1936 250 pages Stewart Reid lives in a small flat with his wife and two young sons in Edinburgh...
01 April 2021

Montreal Most Strange (w/ mysterious directions)

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Blood on My Rug E. Louise Cushing New York: Arcadia, 1956 223 pages Miss Talmadge visits her St Catherine Street bookstore on a Sunday after...
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19 October 2020

Armand Durand; or, A Summer Project

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Armand Durand; ou, La promesse accomplie     [Armand Durand; or, A Promise Fulfilled] Madame Leprohon [Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon;     t...
19 March 2019

Nature as the Devil's Playground

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The Ravine Kendal Young [pseud Phyllis Brett Young] London: W.H. Allen, 1962 208 pages Young Barbara Grey "saved for simply ag...
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16 October 2018

Woah, We're Half Way There!

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Target 2067: Canada’s Second Century Leonard Bertin Toronto: Macmillan, 1968 323 pages Did Target 2067 miss its target? I ask beca...
01 May 2015

May Day and the Promise of May

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Verse for May Day by "Gay Page", Florence Nightingale Horner Sherk. Like last year's , this is drawn from  The Workshops...